Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-87357.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-87357
Upstream
Published
2026-05-26T00:16:57Z
Modified
2026-09-16T06:39:01Z
Summary
CVE-2026-8376 affecting package perl for versions less than 5.38.2-512
Details

Perl versions before 5.40.5-RC1, from 5.41.0 before 5.42.3-RC1, from 5.43.0 before 5.43.11 have a heap buffer overflow when compiling regular expressions with a repeated fixed string on 32-bit builds.

Perl_study_chunk in regcomp_study.c checked the size of the joined substring buffer in characters rather than bytes. For a quantified fixed substring with a large minimum count, the byte length mincount * l could overflow SSize_t, producing an undersized SvGROW allocation; the subsequent copy writes past the end of the buffer.

A caller that compiles an attacker-controlled regular expression on a 32-bit perl build triggers a heap buffer overflow at compile time.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / perl

Package

Name
perl
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/perl

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.38.2-512

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-87357.json"